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Total joins Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) represented by its wholly-owned subsidiaries Kuwait Petroleum International (KPI) and Petrochemicals Industries Co. (PIC) in the Joined Venture with Sinopec for this $9 billion “Refinery” and “Petrochemical” complex at Zhanjiang, in China’s southern Guangdong province. In fact Total took the opportunity to substitute Shell which had pulled out of […]

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 “Downstream” covers all the chain of transformations of the oil or gas after the transportation (Midstream). It begins with the refining and it continues with all the cracking operations of the petrochemical industry to produce all the chain of chemical products (Ethylene, Polyethylene, Propylene, Polypropylene, etc…) Comments: By comparison with the “Upstream” (Exploration & Production) […]

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Definition:  The “NOC” acronym means “National Oil Companies” and refers to the local oil producing companies owned by their respective government. Therefore there are nearly as many “NOCs” as countries in the world, but the most famous ones are: Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, Statoil, Petrochina, Sinopec, Petrobras, ADNOC, Qatar Petroleum, etc…. Comment:  Historically the “NOCs” used […]

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